try `isa(x, Type)`

On Sunday, March 23, 2014 9:44:55 PM UTC-4, K leo wrote:
>
> Use to determine something read in from a file. 
>
> On 03/24/2014 09:30 AM, Collin Glass wrote: 
> > Hmm.. What's your use case? I mean you could just whip up a quick 
> > function isnum that returns true if typeof is any of the collection of 
> > formats. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sunday, March 23, 2014 9:20:51 PM UTC-4, K leo wrote: 
> > 
> >     typeof(var) gives something too specific, like Int16, Float32, 
> >     etc. Is 
> >     there a convenient way to determine if var is a number or 
> >     something else 
> >     (string)?  I tried isreal(var), but it gives an error in case var 
> >     is not 
> >     a number. 
> > 
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